The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-08-02
THE WELLBORN FARCE.


campaign document from the waco
Examiner regarding the alleged We'll
born shooting. 1t was stated i'll the
dispatch which first appeared III the
News that while DR.. John f. caves
was delivering prohibition speech,
w. T.. Farquhar, an anti, who was dis
cussing the question with him, fired
Mt him with Winchester rifle barely
missing, him, etc. This appeared in
the News and other morning papers
before the HERALD published word
about the affair. We believed our
report to be correct because it was
confirmed by three or four
anti papers. SO we published it. The
IIERALD's report, the News report
and all the others regarding the affair
turned out to be "hoax," Eaves now
declares. lie adds that he and Far
quhar, as a piece of friendly fun,
manufactured and had forwarded to
the News and other papers the article
regarding the shooting. Now why
don't the ants attack these anti or
gans for the publication OF "their
hoax?" Instead of doing this, they
make no reference to other papers in
which the telegram appeared, but
seek to abuse the HERALD mere
" because it is for prohibi-
ton and they arc not. VI
course the item was invented and pre-
pared for campaign uses or Eavcs has
been inundated and forced to admit
that the thingis "a hoax" The latter
theory is the more probable one. How
over il may be, the HERALD is ccrtuin-
" not to be held alone responsible for
a statement printed in the other pa
pers and manufactured and wired to
them with the consent of the anti who
claims to have been injured. The
Wellborn ants are not the first who
have made asses Of themselves
for campaign purposes The
HERALD has stated before that
the article published in the HERALD
was NOT as telegram, but as cores
pondence; and Or. Eaves, himself, in
letter to the HERALD, admits that
the gun in Farquhar's hands, was fired
at him, though he says, now, that it
was not Intentional. He admitted,
too, that the report to the News was
sent with his approval.
Here is Dr. Eaves' letter to the
HERALD, and the llERALD's COM
ment published some two weeks
ago:
Tho correspondence was not published rs
a telegram; all such correspondence is not
received by telegraph nor all by telephone,
but some by mail. substantially the same
report was published In the other daily pa
pers and the following statement from DIR.
Eaves, while peculiar, shows that our re-
port was neither SANDER or misreprcsen-
tation-but the occurrence on which 1t was
founded was very foolish piece of bust
ness, or the Dr. has been inundated. lie
writes the HERALD:
The article headed lie Lost His Temper"
was all true with the exception that both
parties were perfectly friendly, and the gun,
though pointed ut me, was tired uninten-
tionally, and its coming out was not intend
ed for prohibition argument for 1t was sent
by the consent OF both parties. w. Il. Far
ailhar is an honorable citizen and enjoys
the respect ard confidence of all who know
him.
In order to prove the genni neness of the
above article, / will say that | am as much
pro as II. q. Mills is anti, and desiring that
no unfair means be used in the present all
absorbing issue, not that wrote the article
above referred to, for that did not do, but
that the article in the WEEKLY HERALD OF
last week be corrected. Anti papers cony.
j. 4. Il.
Dr.Eavcs says ALI. OUR REPORT was
correct EXCEPT that the gun was not
fred Intentionally, as they were on
friendly terms.
Possibly, the reason why they as
sail the HERALD, and not the other
papers which published the report, is
that the HERALD is pro and they
want 10 make some campaign thun-
der: or, moro likely still, that the
HERALD circulates largely in South
Central Texas, and they have not yet
seen the other papers which published
the outrage.